plasmodiocarp

American  

[plaz-moh-dee-uh-kahrp] / plæzˈmoʊ di əˌkɑrp /

noun

Mycology.

1. a fruiting body of certain myxomycetes.

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Etymology

Origin of plasmodiocarp

First recorded in 1875–80; plasmodi(um) + -o- + -carp

Example Sentences

Plasmodiocarp long and widely effused, anon winding, here and there reticulate, always applanate; sometimes in form an �thalium, the peridial cortex membranous, firm, thick, and white.

From Project Gutenberg

Sporangia distinct or plasmodiocarpous, the plasmodiocarp creeping in long vein-like reticulations or curves, laterally compressed; sometimes distinct and crowded, always sessile.

From Project Gutenberg

Of the species last named we have compressed forms opening by narrow fissure along their knife-edged summit, with scarce place for capillitium at all between the approaching walls; again we have colonies of sporangia quite terete, calcareous without, opening in fragmental fashion at the top, displaying sometimes the thin membranous inner wall but at length fissured and gaping as in the more usual phase figured by authors, where the plasmodiocarp is simply compressed but not extravagantly thin.

From Project Gutenberg

The fructification is a delicate netted plasmodiocarp, the tubule about .5 mm., bright red; the peridium simple, cartilaginous, dehiscent from above, and flecked with just here and there a red calcareous scale.

From Project Gutenberg

Plasmodiocarp in small rings or links, then confluent and elongated, irregularly connected together, bent and flexuous, resting on a thin venulose hypothallus, or sometimes globose, the peridium dark colored, with a thin layer of stellate crystals, irregularly ruptured; capillitium of slender, dark-colored threads, which extend from base to wall, more or less branched, and combined into a loose net; columella a thin layer of brown scales; spores globose, very minutely warted, violaceous, 8–9 �.

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